My cats just invented a new meal time called Second Lunch. It fills the gap between Lunch and Pre-Supper.

Hmmm, now who could this - North American certainly - bookseller be....? 🤔

Shit just got real.

The most monstrous dictator in Europe since Hitler, not just appeased, but fêted, honored, by President Trump, who is seemingly intent on giving Putin absolutely everything he wants, including land his barbaric forces have not yet even conquered. A shameful day.

A new study of a fragmented Sumerian tablet reveals a heretofore unknown myth from early Sumerian mythology. Read on to learn the history of this artifact, and the story it preserves 🧵 1/11

Who are these weirdos that only spend 5 and a half hours a day on the internet??

Five pioneering early primers for North Caucasian languages: Chechen, Dargwa, Lezgin, Kabardian (East Circassian) and Abkhazian. All printed in Tbilisi in Georgia between 1906 and 1911.

One of my favorite booksellers, @FunkeBooks, has just uploaded a great new list of affordable 18th century imprints. Download the PDF here: https://t.co/1u2Ls37W2U The focus is on the wonderful engravings in the books, which Mark points out "predate AI generated images by

Part of our team here at the Incunabula Library is Mario, the Perpetually Surprised Cat.

Weekly Georgian Etymology: დარიალი Dariali 'Darial Gorge', from Old Georgian ႣႠႰႨႠႪႠႬ Darialan, from Middle Persian Dar-i-Alan 'Gate of the Alans', from PIE *dʰwer- gate, door and*Áryas Aryan, Iranian. Also known as the Caucasian Gates, it is one of few passes over the Caucasus.

OCCULT ICONOGRAPHY Eckhardt's 1785 "Geheime Figuren der Rosenkreuzer" has 36 coloured plates and claims to be based on an "ancient manuscript", now published for the first time. The enduring influence of these images can be seen in many later texts of the Occult Revival. 1/3

The numbers from one to five in Caddo are: wísts'i', bít, daháw', hiwi', díssikían. Man is shúuwi', woman is náttih. The sun is saku, and the moon is niish.

Prior to colonization and the westwards expansion of the US, speakers of Caddoan languages were widespread. The Caddo historically lived in northeastern Texas, southwestern Arkansas, and northwestern Louisiana, as well as southeastern Oklahoma. The Pawnee formerly lived along the

Five languages belong to the Caddoan language family, one of them, Kitsai, went extinct in the 1930s, and another, Wichita, has been functionally extinct since the last fluent heritage speaker, Doris Lamar-McLemore, died in 2016. Efforts have been made to revive it, with very

Edmond Johnson, the last fluent speaker of the Caddo language of Oklahoma, the historic language of the Caddo Nation, has died at the age of 95. Caddo is a Caddoan language, a family of languages native to the Great Plains historically spoken by tribal groups from present-day

I SO feel seen.

A beautiful tribute from Andrew's friend and colleague Sergey @vauzhao, translated it reads: On July 10, Andrew West passed away - one of the best people I knew. Honest, straightforward, loyal, wise, vulnerable. The greatest expert on ancient scripts, the creator of numerous